What spirit we had
Like peas engaged
Engaged and married
Bought baby clothes and toys and furniture
Purchased all the popular brands of peripheral gear
We snatched what credit we could wrangle
From every offer promising platinum pre-approval
Phasing in sync as a married couple and a family
Love kept up and we kept stretching the dinners
And then we moved to capture the house equity
The new place was a bad fit
We troubled ourselves but could not be bothered
Broken off from the normalcy of spending
Impatient for the leftovers to be boxed up
We thought we could separately bow out
Extinguish the last blaring light in the building
What spirit we had
A slap in the face it felt
We had to split into unholy factions
Shifting logic and alliances
Personal back channel treachery
Social media the final and most potent trip
Debts finally extinguished we dispersed
We blew off special occasions handily
So far away it didn’t and couldn’t hurt